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Battletoads and Double Dragon on the SNES feels like being part of something special
21.10.2023 - 00:43 / destructoid.com
If you’re unfamiliar with the Battletoads, it was a series of games that Rare made before they started to make good games. Hey-oh!
I’ve probably already lost half of you, but it was worth it. For the rest of you who remain, I’m mostly kidding. Mostly. I think history is misremembering Battletoads as a landmark series, when most people only played the first two levels of the original title and never saw past the Turbo Tunnel. Let me tell you, it doesn’t get better from there. But before anyone really had time to let the trauma set in, Rare had ported it to a myriad of platforms.
Battlemaniacs is weirdly derivative of the original title. But, hey, the 1994 arcade game is pretty good.
And then there was Battletoads and Double Dragon. The concept is just incredible, taking the grandfather franchise of the belt-scrolling beat-’em-up and combining it with the Battletoads. And it isn’t bad. It isn’t good, either. I feel like it’s just more interesting to talk about than it is to play.
I’m playing Battletoads and Double Dragon because it was part of my care package from Retro-Bit. The only game I’ve yet to cover from the shipment. They did a reprint of it, which is cool for a few reasons. They redid the cartridge label, colored it a semi-glossy green, and put it in a sort of box that I wish all SNES games came in. The box is sort of a harder cardboard and opens from the front. It’s not on the level of the Genesis/Mega Drive clamshells, but it’s enough that you’d want to keep it. Also, my favorite part of the label is that it has the modern Rare logo on it. I have absolutely no affection for modern-day Rare, but it’s just cool to see the update.
Weirdly, however, I already owned Battletoads and Double Dragon on SNES. I even have the box, which I don’t often collect.
Anyway, aside from that, the game is basically the same, aside from the copyright on the main screen. Well, I hit a bug twice during level 3 where I could no longer advance, but I feel like that might have been in the original game. I feel like I recall hitting it before, but I couldn’t find anyone complaining about it online, so it might be a false memory. However, I don’t think Retro-Bit really changed enough that this one particular problem would occur.
So, Battletoads and Double Dragon are what it says on the box. It’s a game featuring the three toads, Zitz, Pimple, and Acne, as well as Jimmy and Bimmy. The plot is literally, “Oh no, bad guys are attacking. We’d better go pick up the Dragons.” And then that happens, and the game starts. You select from one of the three toads because Jimmy and Bimmy are just a couple of dudes, and that’s boring. The Toads, meanwhile, confidently strut around naked, which I’m always a fan of.
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